 It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages...  Life and Times of John Milton - Page 6by William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 pages
...nee me, qui csetera, viucit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi. 3 90. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. 4 They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. 5 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 pages
...nee me, qui csetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi. 3 90. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. 4 They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. 5 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 pages
...: nee me, qni caetera, vinoit Impetus, et rapido contrarins evehor orbi.3 90. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. i They are a perfect field of cloth of gold.3 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...adversum ; nee me, qui csetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi."1 It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...compared with which the finest declamations of Burke 2 sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1896 - 518 pages
...adveraum; nee me, qnt ctetent, vim-it Impetus, et rapido contnuins evehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 122 pages
...; nee me, qui caetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." 30 It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1897 - 508 pages
...ten books, was afterwards so divided as to make twelve. Its composition, * " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should in our time...gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery." — ifaeaulay. though the work was doubtless meditated long before, occupied about seven years, —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Essays - 1897 - 282 pages
...; nee me, qui caetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.3 90. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.4 They are a perfect field of cloth of gold.5 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 88 pages
...nee ine, qui catera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." J 20 ^ It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...language. They abound with passages compared with which 25 the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of... | |
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